How do you feel about self checkouts

Illustrious Potentate said:
If I have to go in for something, I always use the self checkout. Not interested in making small talk with old women or teenagers
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Well now, how old are we talking here?!?

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Hu War Yu said:
Pepperidge Farm remembers. That would have been A-OK with me. It's not like we don't have the tech for it, so why are they still draggin' their feet?

It's just like with muh flyin' cars. We could totally do it, but the "right people" haven't figured out how to make money off it yet.

If I'm at the Rite Aid and I've got 3 things, I'll use the self-check. Easy peasy. Grocery store, I don't know what all those vegetable codes are, so I'm going to make the clerk ring it all up.
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I could see a "toll" lane for flying cars soon.
 
I generally like them, but as others have said there needs to be a limit on the number of items you have. There just isn’t enough room to bag all of the stuff if you have more than about 20 things. Second, you should have to earn the right to use them. They should require using a shopper’s card to use them and include whether you’ve proven yourself smart enough to use them.

“I’m sorry, sir, but our records show that you aren’t equipped to handle the rigors of the self-check process. The line for a cashier is to the left”
 
Considering every time I go to use one it say's, "Assistance is needed for this item" I find them extremley USELESS
 
RoyMunson said:
Sam's Club has it right with their mobile checkout. I scan things on my phone as I put them in the cart and pay on my walk out the door. The only line I wait in is the one to leave and I don't have to handle my items more than once.
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I agree on Sam's Club. They've got it right. Lets you scan as you put the items in your cart. Then you hit the checkout button on the way out to get your Q code to get out the door. No lines, no waiting. That's the only way to go. Since Sam's and Walmart are owned by the same people, I'm surprised Walmart hasn't gone to a similar system.
 
I also inadvertently stole a package of Reese’s Trees over the holidays. I had put them on the kid seat part of the cart rather than in the main section and didn’t notice until I got to the car. I considered going back in to pay for them, but ultimately decided against it.

I keep an eye out the window for the police every day.
 
Yeah, I always have to wait for the customer service person to come over and verify my age when I buy beer or wine. Another setback for self check out.
 
outofyourmind said:
Gee
All they had to do was call me 20 years ago.

I would have told them how fucked up they are.
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Pretty sure most people did say this 20 years ago, but no one listened.

I'd also say theft is a reason they're getting rid of them. I remember a few years ago seeing where people would go to Walmart (or another big store) take a $1000 TV but switch the barcode with say a $200 TV then go through self checkout, and you have a lot of people who "miss" an item or two going through.

That said, while I've never purposely "missed" and item at self check out, if I do, so be it, I don't work there.
 
They can be convenient but I try to avoid them on principle. They aren’t paying me to do their job so if I give myself a discount because I accidentally used the code for regular apples instead of organic, Idgaf. Take it out of my paycheck that you aren’t giving me.
 
dikowt dowg said:
It's not the end of my world, but I sort of like them because I get out of the store quicker.

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'Self-checkout is doomed': Major supermarkets to scrap technology in huge overhaul​


In a conversation with The U.S. Sun, the expert explained that security concerns and consumer preferences may be the main drivers of these changes.

"From a security standpoint, what's happened is the retailers with self-checkout have had to add employees, whether it's security or other employees to help people at self-checkout.

"So, you know you're not accomplishing anything. You're not reducing labour, you're not getting a better shopping experience."
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P dum quote tbh. If you’re cutting down on 4 staffed lanes by having 4 self checkouts, you’re cutting down on 3-7 employees(depending on if the store has baggers or not), by having one single person be the muppet hand holder for the dummies who can’t get self checkout to work properly.

So at 15 a hour, there’s $45-105 saved per hour. Now are people increasing their stealing by $45-105?

Last line is dum AF too. Not having to wait in line gives me a better shopping experience. One of the three chains here doesn’t have self checkout and I always have to wait the longest to checkout there. If their stores weren’t the cleanest and freshest produce, I wouldn’t even shop there because of the waiting in line tbh.
 
Dolemite censored said:
Self checkouts are convenient as hell. Try being stuck behind some grandma who talks to the cashier 5 minutes about her grandkids and then, pulls out a checkbook to write a fucking check.
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Don't get in line behind grandma, you dolt.
 
moxie said:
They can be convenient but I try to avoid them on principle. They aren’t paying me to do their job so if I give myself a discount because I accidentally used the code for regular apples instead of organic, Idgaf. Take it out of my paycheck that you aren’t giving me.
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You go out of your way to write down the regular apples PLU in produce to use at checkout or are you one of those people who uses the screen to manually find the products code? Don’t be one of those people.
 
You’re supposed to checkout yourself? I just walk through and say thank you. They charge you on that device right?
 
Guy Incognito said:
Don't get in line behind grandma, you dolt.
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Sometimes there isn’t much of an option. It’s rare to go into my local Kroger and see as many as three checkouts staffed. Half of the time, they don’t even have baggers.
 
williewilliejuan said:
Sometimes there isn’t much of an option. It’s rare to go into my local Kroger and see as many as three checkouts staffed. Half of the time, they don’t even have baggers.
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I can't remember the last time a store around here even had baggers on staff.
 
Deep Dish Pizza Goat said:
P dum quote tbh. If you’re cutting down on 4 staffed lanes by having 4 self checkouts, you’re cutting down on 3-7 employees(depending on if the store has baggers or not), by having one single person be the muppet hand holder for the dummies who can’t get self checkout to work properly.

So at 15 a hour, there’s $45-105 saved per hour. Now are people increasing their stealing by $45-105?

Last line is dum AF too. Not having to wait in line gives me a better shopping experience. One of the three chains here doesn’t have self checkout and I always have to wait the longest to checkout there. If their stores weren’t the cleanest and freshest produce, I wouldn’t even shop there because of the waiting in line tbh.
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"Gluten Free" people who don't have some kind of illness like Celiac should have to wait twice as long as anyone else to check out - just on principle.
 
Deep Dish Pizza Goat said:
You go out of your way to write down the regular apples PLU in produce to use at checkout or are you one of those people who uses the screen to manually find the products code? Don’t be one of those people.
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I’m one of those people that looks for a sticker to scan or key in if I didn’t memorize it (I was a checker for a couple years in my 20’s) Then I’ll look it up or just use 4072 because I can’t find jalapeño because these idiots put it under “pepper”.

You just wear your crocs and mind your business. Stop becoming your parents.
 
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